How to transfer Dropbox files to OneDrive

Most of us nowadays have devices with small internal storage, like me - and have devices with small hard drives but cloud storage with massive storage - it can be difficult to sync Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc.

• made even worse if you dual boot Linux and Windows.

I found this trick while having to migrate out of Dropbox (2 terabytes) to OneDrive with 5 gbs of free storage to work with on my laptop.

Step 1) Install OneDrive for Linux, located here: https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive/ (Microsoft does not have an official Linux OneDrive application, but this is the one they'll direct you to as well)

The default OneDrive location is ~/home/your_user_name/OneDrive

Create a folder inside called to_transfer, from the console this would be:

mkdir ~/home/your_user_name/OneDrive/to_transfer

Step 2) Since you do not want your OneDrive to sync all remote files to your computer, open the console (Crtl + Alt + T) and create the following configuration file:

touch ~/.config/onedrive/sync_list

nano ~/.config/onedrive/sync_list

# sync_list supports comments

# include the below folder

to_transfer/

# exclude any temporary files

!to_transfer/*.tmp

Step 3) Download files you need from Dropbox or the drive you're migrating to OneDrive (the maximum zip file Dropbox will make is 20 gb unfortunately).

Step 4) Extract / Unzip the files into the to_transfer folder you created.

Step 5) Run the following from the console:

onedrive --synchronize --upload-only --no-remote-delete

Step 6) Once the upload completes, repeat as necessary until you've transferred all of your files to OneDrive.